Tests on Sisi

The new missile effects on Sisi are amazing, and the look of the new stealth bombers are quite nice as well.  My personal favorite is the new nemesis, with the mata ray look.

I urge everyone to do testing on Sisi to get used to the new inventory system if nothing else.  Those who forgo testing the new system will likely be lost for a bit when Inferno gets dumped on Tanquility.  It's quite different and easy to lose track of stuff.   I'm all for the change, as Eve is never static.

news of an unwelcome visitor

Opened an corp mail from the ceo.  We've had a ghost loki hanging around for a bit, and finally have gotten a visual on it.  The appropriate name has been added to watchlists.

I suppose now that we've been lucky so far, and we can no longer count on keeping the statics closed without crashing them. 

tidi in hisec

The Sack of Jita got off to an early start, with nearly 2300 pilots in the system blowing up things on the 4-4 undock.  I took some pictures - from a safe distance of course.

At one point TiDi dropped all the way down to 10%, which made doing anything an exercise in patience, fortunately wormhole dwellers have that in spades.

Screenshots after the jump

clearing out some sites

So this morning attempting to login gets me the 'system is still loading' message. Wait 30 seconods, try again and I get this little gem:

We'll see if my tweet about it get any reactions, and I'm searching forums to see if others are having the same issue.



Had chance a couple days ago to do some sleeper killing with all statics closed and nothing incoming.   We had 7 combat anomolies, I chose to run the 3 Perimeter Hangers, which yielded 8 nanoribbons.


Here's the little piggy vacuuming up salvage:

Edit:  apparently the node was restarted for the issue, thanks to CCP Navigator for letting us know.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=96887&find=unread

fuel hauling

Todays exit is a mere 10 jumps from a market hub, pulled 300mil from the corp wallett to haul blocks back to the towers - we have over a month in each of them now.  With about 10k extra fuel it should tide us over till well after the Jita burning event.

minerals, minerals, minerals!

With the recent spike in mineral prices I'm going to take a hard look at restarting my first profession in Eve - mining.

Next grav site we get I'll do my level best to strip out the high end ores before it despawns entirely.  With the appropriate Orca boost, we'll see how that goes.

Note to self - buy some booster fittings for the darn orca.

making the small iskies

6 nanoribbons from 2 Perimeter Hangers, not too bad.  Haven't been on too much but I refilled my factory planets and scanned out the new hisec out near Khanid.  Lutra is making a beeline to get back inside to scoop planet goop to sell.

post-poacher cleanup

Got a text message from Lutra wanting me to salvage the radar site after he scared a poacher off.  He volleyed the drakes shields off but since he was 70k away didn't get a point on the guy.  5 nanoribbons from the salvage and Lutra cleaned up the loot.

no real news

I've been out of the loop lately, but the corp did blow up the small tower someone had planted in system.

As far as the debacle surrounding Mittens....he made his apology and seems genuinely contrite.  Let him remain chairman and lead the CSM.   Mittens is only human after all, and humans are generally very good at making dumb mistakes.   He learned a lesson, and it should push him into being an even better chair than in CSM6.

missing the action, for once a good thing.

So apparently the system has been a hotbed of activity in the last couple days, 3 different pilots lost a ship to 3 different groups of hunters.

bestower (setup a small tower, have not seen anyone from the corp since)
badger badger + the pod (setup a medium tower, took it down after Harb asked him nicely)
shiny daredevil + the pod (ohh that was expensive)

We'll wait till the small tower runs out of fuel then take it down cause we're lazy like that.

To the rest, happy hunting!

system crashes

Comcast apparently dislikes me as I have had a string of crashes, likely due to router crap.  I'll drop connection anywhere between 30 seconds and 5 minutes.  I hesitate to do anything risky while this is happening, I'll have to be content doing PI for some sort of income till they get stuff fixed.

A bug fix causes sad panda

I find out today that entering a POS forcefield will now always decloak you, a very recent change.  Submitted a bug report and was told it was an intentional fix, as it was a bug for the past 3+ years that I have enjoyed using.  

It was nice while it lasted, I will need to make more safespots where I can idle cloaked semi-safely now.

I have had more client crashes lately as well, I've updated drivers, etc - I'm actually thinking it's caused by my ISP losing the route to the servers, as the website is down for me at the time of client crashes.

CSM7 endorsements

This will actually be quite a bit shorter than I had originally planned, but here goes.

Candidates that have my full endorsement plus one of my votes:

Hans Jagerblitzen will be getting one of my votes.  Before I even knew who Hans was, I have grown to respect him for his posts on the forums.  Hans primarily operates in lowsec and highsec, with lowsec being his primary focus.   I know very little about lowsec or the issues involved but lowsec needs a strong candidate.  Hans is an advocate for small-gang and solo fighting styles, rather than blog mechanics.  He also admits that he knows little about wormholes and nullsec, and I respect him for not wanting to meddle in things he knows little about.  Hans is also an active highsec industrialist, which I have been dabbling in on a  lowimpact basis.  While I may not agree with everything he says, I believe it is important to vote for someone who will benefit all of EVE, not just my little corner.  I do know that Hans has been a strong contributer to CSM6, despite not having a seat.  Hans has my full endorsement for CSM7.

Mike Azariah will get my vote and full endorsement.   I have long enjoyed his blog, his ability to get people together towards a common goal, andit will be fun to have a strong roleplay candidate.

Trebor Daehdoow will be getting a vote and endorsement.  Trebor has been quite active in the forums along with Hans, and somehow I popped up on his radar, as he personally eve-mailed me in support of his campaign.

Two Step is a natural vote, being primarily a wormholer.  Two Step has been instrumental for bringing wormhole issues to the table, as well as defending wormhole mechanics from being attacked by those who have never lived in one.   I will be sending a vote his way, as well as giving him my full endorsement.


The following have my endorsement, sadly I lack the votes needed to include them in the list above.

Kelduum Revaan is the current CEO of Eve University, where I had an alt for a couple of years.  I do not agree with everything Kelduum says, but we need a strong candidate with experience bringing in and retaining new players.

Seleene has strong ideas for industry to make life less of a clickfest.  Some very good ideas, +1 endorsement.


I did not list everyone, but the above candidates have my endorsement.

CSM 7 voting soon

I will be detailing my endorsements for CSM7 tomorrow - stay tuned

Minor thoughts on Crucible

Just some minor things about the expansion from playing the last several weeks -

Corp bookmarks are a godsend.

I don't miss the api jumps missing from wormholes as much as I thought I would.

I've started reading more into the CSM this time around, and I did come across a very good post by Seleene - http://seleenes-sandbox.blogspot.com/2012/03/eves-industrial-revolution.html
He has some very good ideas on how to make industry less boring and more fun, I like it.